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Joseph Martello,^[1] more commonly known as Hammerhead, appears as the primary antagonist of The City That Never Sleeps downloadable content for Marvel's Spider-Man. A mob boss with a skull made of reinforced steel, he is the head of the Hammerhead family, one of the "families" of the criminal organization known as the Maggia. Following the power vacuum caused by the arrests of both Kingpin and Mister Negative, Hammerhead's crew is among those taking part in the resulted gang war for power over New York's criminal underworld.

Hammerhead is voiced by Keith Silverstein.^[3]

History

Early history

The man who would become Hammerhead was born in Russia. At an unknown point, he was recruited into one of the five "families" of the criminal organization known as the Maggia, before being nearly killed one day following a brutal beat-down. A surgeon then found him and saved his life, implanting a steel alloy plate in his skull in the process. The incident likely left him mentally scarred, as he would go on to become a homicidal maniac afterwards, eventually becoming one of the most influential gang leaders within the Maggia.^[2]

Marvel's Spider-Man

Sometime after Doctor Octopus's incarceration, Hammerhead breaks the ceasefire between the Maggia families, planning to regain the respect and fear that the Maggia used to have. He hires Black Cat to steal the five data drives needed to access the shared Maggia bank account (one of which is in his possession). However, Black Cat steals the drives for herself, including the one belonging to him, and fools him by giving him four fakes. Hammerhead's subordinates soon learn of Black Cat's trickery, driving Hammerhead into a murderous rage, ordering his men to blow up Black Cat's penthouse with her as vengeance. Despite Spider-Man's attempts to save her, Black Cat seemingly perishes in the explosion, with Hammerhead watching from a distance.

Black Cat's deception forces Hammerhead to change his plans. He shifts to instead killing the other Maggia dons, giving him complete control over their operations and controlled districts. While the other four dons join together to defend their territory, Hammerhead's acquisition of illegally acquired Sable International technology gives him a powerful advantage. With their new weaponry, Hammerhead and his mob declare war on the other Maggia factions, resulting in a bloody gang war throughout New York.

Hammerhead's base of operations is attacked by an NYPD squadron led by Captain Yuri Watanabe and Spider-Man. However, Hammerhead and his thugs overwhelm Watanabe and her team, and begin executing her officers one at a time. Spider-Man makes it in time to prevent Hammerhead from killing Watanabe herself, but Hammerhead escapes in the ensuing confusion. Going into hiding in the meantime, Hammerhead begins his plan to assassinate the other Maggia dons. Despite Spider-Man's best efforts, Hammerhead's men succeed in capturing the dons. Next, Hammerhead has his men create a diversion for Spider-Man and the NYPD by going after a convoy of police-acquired Sable weaponry. His real motive is to attack the Upper East precinct, which has possession of Sable International's "Project Olympus", an experimental battle armor, slaughtering many officers and civilians in the process.

Hammerhead outfits himself the Project Olympus suit. As the final stage in his plan to seize control of the Maggia, he plans to kill the other dons in a public and televised execution at a construction site. However, he is foiled by Spider-Man, who confronts him on top of the construction site and is able to defeat him. Before the police can take him into custody, however, Captain Watanabe arrives on the scene. Driven over the edge by Hammerhead's schemes, she immobilizes Spider-Man before vengefully shooting Hammerhead in the head. However, as he is being taken away in an ambulance, one of his men sabotages the transport and revives him with a taser.

Hammerhead from MSM promo 2 — Hammerhead enhanced by the Project Olympus armor

After being resurrected, Hammerhead goes into hiding and uses the Project Olympus to replace most of his body with mechanical components, transforming himself into a cyborg. This leads to the return of Silver Sable to New York to retrieve her stolen Sable equipment. After getting information from Hammerhead's top henchman Tony, Spider-Man and Silver Sable team up to face off against him at the Colexco building. However, the Project Olympus-enhanced Hammerhead nearly kills Spider-Man and abducts Silver Sable. After Black Cat, who is revealed to be still alive, rescues Spider-Man and gives him a drive to help defeat Hammerhead, he and Silver Sable use the drive to lure Hammerhead to a Sable International boat. There, Hammerhead is ultimately defeated by the two after they use a laser to break through the carbon steel in his head and Sable crashes her jet into him.

Characteristics

Appearance

Concept art

Hammerhead is a large man with black hair. Due to an injury he suffered in his youth, he has a carbon steel plate implanted into his skull, making his head flat on top. His face, particularly his forehead, is also heavily scarred as a result of the aforementioned incident. After Captain Watanabe's attack on his life, most of the flesh on the left side of his forehead has been burned off, exposing the plate underneath.

Personality

Hammerhead is characterized as a ruthless and sadistic man obsessed with power. He has no qualms about igniting a gang war or stealing humanitarian aid for his own benefit, and will resort to whatever means necessary to get what he wants.

Hammerhead believes in the "good ol' days", the time where the Maggia controlled New York through fear and the police "knew their place". Hammerhead insists that his only wish is for the Maggia to be feared and respected again by New York's community, believing the other dons got "too soft" and allowed the organization's reputation to fall apart.

Powers and abilities

Hammerhead initially has no superhuman abilities, yet he displays above-average strength, lifting a fully-grown man into the air with one hand. Additionally, his cranial implant gives his head great durability, and allows him to kill someone with a single headbutt and survive being shot in the head by a rifle. He is also shown to be a skilled marksman and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.

Upon his usage of Project Olympus, which essentially turns him into a cyborg, Hammerhead is made virtually indestructible. With it, he acquires superhuman strength that makes him capable of restraining and easily overpowering Spider-Man, as well as increased durability. It also enables him to move in short bursts of superhuman speed.

Fronts

Hammerhead has several business operations that serve as fronts for smuggling illegal currency printers, laundering counterfeit cash, and the like. Following the mission The Bar With No Name, the player can take these down to earn Base Tokens. Each front will have several waves of Hammerhead's men to defeat, as well as different sets of bonus objectives to complete for extra Base Tokens. The overall goal is to clear the area of enemies. There are, in total, four "Hammerhead Fronts" around the city.

Location	Bonus objectives	Rewards
Harlem	Stealth Takedown 5 enemies Electrify 10 enemies at once	Up to x3
Hell's Kitchen	Defeat 5 enemies using yankable objects Perform an 85 hit combo	Up to x3
Upper East Side	Perform 10 Off the Wall attacks Perform 15 Swing Kicks	Up to x3
Upper West Side	Perform 15 Perfect Dodges Web 20 enemies to walls	Up to x3

Original appearance

For more background of Joseph Martello throughout comic book history, see all appearances of Hammerhead and the original appearance of Joseph Martello on the Marvel Database

Hammerhead first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #113 (October 1972).

References

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4. Marvel.com. Accessed March 26, 2019.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Marvel's Spider-Man, character bio
↑ Spider-Man (Video Game 2018) - Full Cast & Crew. IMDb. Accessed March 24, 2019.

[Hammerhead's_last_name-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4. Marvel.com. Accessed March 26, 2019.

[character_bio-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Marvel's Spider-Man, character bio

[3] Spider-Man (Video Game 2018) - Full Cast & Crew. IMDb. Accessed March 24, 2019.

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 |image       = Hammerhead from MSM promo.jpg
-|name        = Joseph
+|name        = Hammerhead
+|alter ego   = Joseph Martello<ref name="Hammerhead's last name">{{cite web|website=Marvel.com|url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/games/marvel-s-spider-man-on-ps4-get-to-know-hammerhead-the-maggia-don-in-turf-wars|title=Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 | Get to Know Hammerhead - The Maggia Don in 'Turf Wars'|access-date=March 26, 2019}}</ref>
-|alter ego   = Hammerhead
-|age         =
 |home        = [[New York City]]
-|membership  = [[Maggia]] (Hammerhead crime family)
+|membership  = [[Maggia]]
+|occupation  = Crime boss
-|family      =
+|height      = 6'5"{{cite|ctns|character bio|name=character bio}}
-|occupation = Crimelord, Maggia Don
-|height      =6'5"
+|weight      = 290 lbs<ref name="character bio"/>
-|weight      =290 lbs
 |gender      = Male
 |abilities   =
+* Bullet-proof skull
-* Criminal mastermind
+* Skilled marksman
+* Deadly street fighter
 * Superhuman strength, speed and durability
-* Adamantium skull
 |voice actor = [[wikipedia:Keith Silverstein|Keith Silverstein]]
 |original appearance = Hammerhead (Joseph) (Earth-616)
 }}
-'''Joseph''', better known as '''Hammerhead''', appears as the primary antagonist of ''[[The City That Never Sleeps]]'' downloadable content for ''[[Marvel's Spider-Man]]'', the [[wikipedia:PlayStation|PlayStation 4]] video game. He is the head of the Hammerhead family, one of the "families" of the criminal organization known as the [[Maggia]]. The character is voiced by [[wikipedia:Keith Silverstein|Keith Silverstein]].
+'''Joseph Martello''',<ref name="Hammerhead's last name"/> more commonly known as '''Hammerhead''', appears as the primary antagonist of ''[[The City That Never Sleeps]]'' downloadable content for ''[[Marvel's Spider-Man]]''. A mob boss with a skull made of reinforced steel, he is the head of the Hammerhead family, one of the "families" of the criminal organization known as the [[Maggia]].  Following the power vacuum caused by the arrests of both [[Kingpin]] and [[Mister Negative]], Hammerhead's crew is among those taking part in the resulted gang war for power over [[New York City|New York]]'s criminal underworld.
+Hammerhead is voiced by [[wikipedia:Keith Silverstein|Keith Silverstein]].<ref>{{cite web|website=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5807780/fullcredits|title=Spider-Man (Video Game 2018) - Full Cast & Crew|access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref>
 ==History==
 ===Early history===
-The man who would become Hammerhead was born in Russia. A don of the [[Maggia]] crime syndicate, Hammerhead was nearly killed following a brutal beat-down. However, a surgeon found him half-dead and saved his life by putting a carbon steel plate in his head.
+The man who would become Hammerhead was born in Russia. At an unknown point, he was recruited into one of the five "families" of the criminal organization known as the [[Maggia]], before being nearly killed one day following a brutal beat-down. A surgeon then found him and saved his life, implanting a steel alloy plate in his skull in the process. The incident likely left him mentally scarred, as he would go on to become a homicidal maniac afterwards, eventually becoming one of the most influential gang leaders within the Maggia.<ref name="character bio"/>
 ===''Marvel's Spider-Man''===
-Sometime after [[Doctor Octopus]]'s incarceration, Hammerhead broke the ceasefire between the Maggia families, planning to regain the respect and fear that the Maggia used to have. He hired [[Black Cat]] to steal the five data drives needed to access the shared Maggia bank account (one of which was in his possession).
+Sometime after [[Doctor Octopus]]'s incarceration, Hammerhead breaks the ceasefire between the Maggia families, planning to regain the respect and fear that the Maggia used to have. He hires [[Black Cat]] to steal the five data drives needed to access the shared Maggia bank account (one of which is in his possession). However, Black Cat steals the drives for herself, including the one belonging to him, and fools him by giving him four fakes. Hammerhead's subordinates soon learn of Black Cat's trickery, driving Hammerhead into a murderous rage, ordering his men to blow up Black Cat's penthouse with her as vengeance. Despite [[Spider-Man]]'s attempts to save her, Black Cat seemingly perishes in the explosion, with Hammerhead watching from a distance.
+Black Cat's deception forces Hammerhead to change his plans. He shifts to instead killing the other Maggia dons, giving him complete control over their operations and controlled districts. While the other four dons join together to defend their territory, Hammerhead's acquisition of illegally acquired [[Sable International]] technology gives him a powerful advantage. With their new weaponry, Hammerhead and his mob declare war on the other Maggia factions, resulting in a bloody gang war throughout [[New York City|New York]].
-However, the Black Cat had no intention of giving Hammerhead the real drives, and gave him fake ones while she kept the real ones to herself, even going so far as to manipulate Spider-Man into helping her by claiming she had a child that Hammerhead was keeping captive and was using as leverage to force Black Cat to work for him. Upon Spider-Man and Black Cat heading to the Maggia hideout where he stored his own drive, Spider-Man found no child but instead a large artillery of [[Sable International]] weaponry, and was quickly ambushed by Sable-armed Hammerhead thugs. His subordinates soon learned of Black Cat’s true motives, driving Hammerhead into a murderous rage, ordering his men to blow up Black Cat’s penthouse with her as vengeance. Despite Spider-Man‘s earnest attempts to save her despite the fact she remorselessly manipulated him, Black Cat seemingly perished in the explosion, with Hammerhead watching from a distance.
+Hammerhead's base of operations is attacked by an NYPD squadron led by Captain [[Yuriko Watanabe|Yuri Watanabe]] and Spider-Man. However, Hammerhead and his thugs overwhelm Watanabe and her team, and begin executing her officers one at a time. Spider-Man makes it in time to prevent Hammerhead from killing Watanabe herself, but Hammerhead escapes in the ensuing confusion. Going into hiding in the meantime, Hammerhead begins his plan to assassinate the other Maggia dons. Despite Spider-Man's best efforts, Hammerhead's men succeed in capturing the dons. Next, Hammerhead has his men create a diversion for Spider-Man and the NYPD by going after a convoy of police-acquired Sable weaponry. His real motive is to attack the [[Upper East Side|Upper East]] precinct, which has possession of Sable International's "Project Olympus", an experimental battle armor, slaughtering many officers and civilians in the process.
-Black Cat's deception forced Hammerhead to change his plans. He shifted to instead killing the other Maggia dons, giving him complete control over their operations and controlled districts. While the other four dons joined together to defend their territory, Hammerhead's acquisition of illegally acquired Sable technology gave him a powerful advantage. With their new weaponry, Hammerhead and his goons declared war on the other Maggia factions, resulting in a bloody gang war throughout New York.
+Hammerhead outfits himself the Project Olympus suit. As the final stage in his plan to seize control of the Maggia, he plans to kill the other dons in a public and televised execution at a construction site. However, he is foiled by Spider-Man, who confronts him on top of the construction site and is able to defeat him. Before the police can take him into custody, however, Captain Watanabe arrives on the scene. Driven over the edge by Hammerhead's schemes, she immobilizes Spider-Man before vengefully shooting Hammerhead in the head. However, as he is being taken away in an ambulance, one of his men sabotages the transport and revives him with a taser.
-Hammerhead’s base of operations, the dilapidated Harlem Sanitarium, was attacked by a NYPD squadron lead by Captain [[Yuriko Watanabe|Yuri Watanabe]] and Spider-Man. However, Hammerhead and his thugs overwhelmed Watanabe and her squadron, and began executing her officers one at a time. Spider-Man made it in time to prevent Hammerhead from killing Watanabe herself, but Hammerhead escaped in the ensuing confusion.
+[[File:Hammerhead from MSM promo 2.jpg|thumb|left|Hammerhead enhanced by the Project Olympus armor]]
-Going into hiding in the meantime, Hammerhead began his plan to assassinate the other Maggia dons, who were hiding out at the Auerbach Theatre. Despite Spider-Man‘s best efforts, Hammerhead’s men succeeded in capturing the dons. Next, Hammerhead had his men create a diversion for Spider-Man and the NYPD by going after a convoy of police-acquired Sable weaponry. His real motive was to attack the Upper East precinct, which had possession of Sable International's Project Olympus, slaughtering many officers and civilians in the process.
+After being resurrected, Hammerhead goes into hiding and uses the Project Olympus to replace most of his body with mechanical components, transforming himself into a cyborg. This leads to the return of [[Silver Sable]] to New York to retrieve her stolen Sable equipment. After getting information from Hammerhead's top henchman Tony, Spider-Man and Silver Sable team up to face off against him at the Colexco building. However, the Project Olympus-enhanced Hammerhead nearly kills Spider-Man and abducts Silver Sable. After Black Cat, who is revealed to be still alive, rescues Spider-Man and gives him a drive to help defeat Hammerhead, he and Silver Sable use the drive to lure Hammerhead to a Sable International boat. There, Hammerhead is ultimately defeated by the two after they use a laser to break through the carbon steel in his head and Sable crashes her jet into him.
-As the final stage in his plan to bring back "the good ol' days", Hammerhead planned to his status by killing the other dons in a public and televised execution by burying them in a pit with cement at Hudson Yards. In the meantime, Hammerhead enhances himself with Project Olympus, an experimental battle armor. However, the execution of the dons was foiled by Spider-Man, who confronted Hammerhead on top of the construction site. Shrugging off Spider-Man's interference, Hammerhead decided to kill Spider-Man, in order to get the fear and respect that he craved. Despite the power boost given by the armor, and the aid of several of his men, Hammerhead is ultimately defeated.
-Before the police could take him into custody, Captain Watanabe arrived on the scene. Driven over the edge by Hammerhead's schemes, she restrained Spider-Man with a Sable bola and held the crime lord at gunpoint. Before Spider-Man and the other officers could stop her, Watanabe coldly shot Hammerhead in the head with a Sable rifle.
-Hammerhead's body was placed in an ambulance, likely to be taken to the morgue. However, the transport was sabotaged by one of Hammerhead's men, who revived Hammerhead with a taser.
-By the time Hammerhead returned to his underground base and demands that his scientists make him less human, which the scientist agreed to, transforming him into a cyborg. Over to [[Silver Sable]]'s base, Hammerhead battled against Spider-Man while Sable tried to attack him. Eventually, Hammerhead was killed by Sable's aircraft, when she crashed her ship into him, before having to angrily get up and die from dysfunction.
 ==Characteristics==
 ===Appearance===
+{{multiple image
-Hammerhead is a large man with dark brown hair. His face, particularly his forehead, is heavily scarred, likely the result of the incident that led to him getting the plate in his head.
+|direction         = vertical
+|image1            = Hammerhead from MSM concept art.jpg
-After Yuri Watanabe's attack on his life, most of the flesh on the left side of his forehead has been burned off, exposing the plate underneath.
+|image2            = Hammerhead from MSM concept art 2.jpg
+|header            = Concept art
+}}
+Hammerhead is a large man with black hair. Due to an injury he suffered in his youth, he has a carbon steel plate implanted into his skull, making his head flat on top. His face, particularly his forehead, is also heavily scarred as a result of the aforementioned incident. After Captain Watanabe's attack on his life, most of the flesh on the left side of his forehead has been burned off, exposing the plate underneath.
-=== Personality ===
+===Personality===
-Hammerhead is characterized as a ruthless and sadistic man. He has no qualms about igniting a gang war or stealing humanitarian aid for his own benefit, and will resort to whatever means necessary to get what he wants.
+Hammerhead is characterized as a ruthless and sadistic man obsessed with power. He has no qualms about igniting a gang war or stealing humanitarian aid for his own benefit, and will resort to whatever means necessary to get what he wants.
-Hammerhead believes in the "good ol' days", the time where the Maggia controlled New York through fear and the police "knew their place". Hammerhead insists that his only wish is for the Maggia to be feared and respected again by New York’s community, believing the other dons got “too soft” and allowed the organization’s reputation to fall apart.
+Hammerhead believes in the "good ol' days", the time where the Maggia controlled New York through fear and the police "knew their place". Hammerhead insists that his only wish is for the Maggia to be feared and respected again by New York's community, believing the other dons got "too soft" and allowed the organization's reputation to fall apart.
-=== Abilities ===
+===Powers and abilities===
+Hammerhead initially has no superhuman abilities, yet he displays above-average strength, lifting a fully-grown man into the air with one hand. Additionally, his cranial implant gives his head great durability, and allows him to kill someone with a single headbutt and survive being shot in the head by a rifle. He is also shown to be a skilled marksman and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant.
-*'''Project Olympus''': Hammerhead has been refined and enhanced by Project Olympus. Initially only using an exoskeleton, Hammerhead's temporary death at Yuri Watanabe's hands pushes him to replace most of his body with mechanical components, transforming him into a cyborg.
-**'''Enhanced durability''': Hammerhead's cranial implant gives his head great durability, and allows him to kill someone with a single headbutt and survive being shot in the head by a Sable rifle. His Project Olympus improvements have transformed him into a true cyborg, giving him shielding mechanisms and superhuman durability.
-**'''Increased strength''': Hammerhead has above-average strength, being able to lift a fully-grown man into the air with one hand. His strength increases upon his usage of Project Olympus, making him capable of restraining and easily overpowering Spider-Man.
-**'''Enhanced speed''': Through the usage of Project Olympus, Hammerhead is capable of short bursts of superhuman speed.
+Upon his usage of Project Olympus, which essentially turns him into a cyborg, Hammerhead is made virtually indestructible. With it, he acquires superhuman strength that makes him capable of restraining and easily overpowering Spider-Man, as well as increased durability. It also enables him to move in short bursts of superhuman speed.
-=== Equipment ===
-*'''Cranial implant''': Hammerhead has a carbon steel plate implanted into his skull.
-*'''Sable International weaponry'''
-=== Fronts ===
+===Fronts===
-{{section}}
 {{infobox trophy
 |name     = Prohibition
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 |image    = Prohibition.png
 }}
+Hammerhead has several business operations that serve as fronts for smuggling illegal currency printers, laundering counterfeit cash, and the like. Following the mission [[The Bar With No Name]], the player can take these down to earn [[Base Token]]s. Each front will have several waves of Hammerhead's men to defeat, as well as different sets of bonus objectives to complete for extra Base Tokens. The overall goal is to clear the area of enemies. There are, in total, four "'''Hammerhead Fronts'''" around the city.
+{| class="article-table"
+!Location
+!Bonus objectives
+!Rewards
+|-
+|[[Harlem]]
+|Stealth Takedown 5 enemies<br />[[Electric Web|Electrify]] 10 enemies at once
+|Up to x3 [[File:Base Tokens resource icon.png|20px|link=Base Token]]
+|-
+|[[Hell's Kitchen]]
+|Defeat 5 enemies using yankable objects<br />Perform an 85 hit combo
+|Up to x3 [[File:Base Tokens resource icon.png|20px|link=Base Token]]
+|-
+|[[Upper East Side]]
+|Perform 10 [[Marvel's Spider-Man controls|Off the Wall]] attacks<br />Perform 15 Swing Kicks
+|Up to x3 [[File:Base Tokens resource icon.png|20px|link=Base Token]]
+|-
+|[[Upper West Side]]
+|Perform 15 Perfect Dodges<br />Web 20 enemies to walls
+|Up to x3 [[File:Base Tokens resource icon.png|20px|link=Base Token]]
+|}
 ==Original appearance==
-{{mdb|Hammerhead|Hammerhead (Joseph) (Earth-616)}}Hammerhead first appeared in [[w:c:marvel:Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 113|''Amazing Spider-Man'' #113]] (October 1972).
+{{mdb|Hammerhead|Hammerhead (Joseph) (Earth-616)}}
+Hammerhead first appeared in [[w:c:marvel:Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 113|''Amazing Spider-Man'' #113]] (October 1972).
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
 {{navbox characters}}
-[[Category:Characters in The City That Never Sleeps]]
+[[Category:Characters in Marvel's Spider-Man]]
-[[Category:Bosses in The City That Never Sleeps]]
+[[Category:Bosses]]